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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Preschool Benefits Grossly Exaggerated
In case you missed it with all the activities last year, The Reason Foundation released a report challenging a Rand Corporation study that claims universal preschool will deliver $2.62 in benefits for every dollar spent by California taxpayers. The Rand report has been thoroughly discredited by two San Jose State University economics professors who show the Rand preschool study "cherry-picked" data, based its claims on "unbelievable assumptions that bias the results," and omitted numerous costs and other factors that significantly lower the alleged benefits of universal preschool.
"On the surface the Rand study looks like a credible, thoroughly research document," said Chris Cardiff, who teaches economics at San Jose State University and is co-author of the analysis of Rand's universal preschool study. "But upon review we found the Rand study fails to pass even the basic benchmarks of what can be considered a reasonable economic analysis." "Nearly every time there is a choice on how to calculate the benefits of preschool, Rand chooses the rosiest – and most unlikely – scenario," stated Edward Stringham, Ph.D., assistant professor of economics at San Jose State and co-author of the review. "When it comes to the costs of universal preschool, Rand completely ignores some costs and dramatically underestimates others. Frankly, if one of my students turned in Rand's cost-benefit analysis on preschool it would get an ‘F.'"[Read More - Also a link to download the Full Report] Tags:preschool benefits, Rand Corporation, Reason Foundation, universal preschoolTo share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
Evidently California didn't think so. California Proposition 82 establishing free statewide universal preschool for every 4 year-old in the state was rejected by 60.9% June 6, 06. The ballot measure failed in all but two counties despite months of multimillion dollar campaigning by Hollywood activist. http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/2006/july06/preschool.html
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Can Science Justify Preschool?
Evidently California didn't think so. California Proposition 82 establishing free statewide universal preschool for every 4 year-old in the state was rejected by 60.9% June 6, 06. The ballot measure failed in all but two counties despite months of multimillion dollar campaigning by Hollywood activist.
http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/2006/july06/preschool.html
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